Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-10-08
A SUBSCRIBER writes the JOURNAL


you to give your opinion about the establish
ment of such an institution.
We have an institution of almost
the character designated by our friend.
1t has large number of depositors,
but the prosperous year has made
money so plentiful that it has been
unable to invest the funds with its
usual success. 1t has had in its
treasury all the year, therefore, a
large sum wholly reproductive.
The depositors in dime savings
bank would naturally look for more
than the accumulation of more de-
posts. But the experience this year
of the Savings and Loan Association
discourages expectations of that
character.
So that, as a place of mere deposit
the institution suggested might meet
the wants of those who desire to save
their small earnings, but under the
current tide of work and wages we
doubt whether investments can be
found that will yield profit.
ELSEWHERE a notice informs the
lovers of the JOURNAL that the ed
itor hereof will take a vacation of
two weeks.
This step is not taken for the ben
eft of health, or altogether for
pleasure, but principally for bus,ness.
There is in view several important
additions to our outfit. We must
survey an untrodden field, and, to
make no mistake, we desire to explore
it under the guidance of expert
engineers and pressmen, one of them
somewhat interested consanguineous-
ly in the JOURNAL.
We shall take in Chicago and
Kansas City particularly. At the
latter place we shall meet President
Cleveland and endeavor to attend to
the large affairs while he is looking
after business at the cross roads.
Anything of the trip worth telling
the readers of the JOURNAL will ap-
pear in the issue of the 29th inst.
THE JOURNALS ong-time es-
innate of James W. Wilson, of
Rawlings station, as a sound, solid,
plucky man, was established by an
incident in Tuesdays convention of
rare occurrence in political bodies.
After his nomination as county COM
missioner, and seeing that the city of
Cumberland was lett unrepresented,
he quickly declined the distinction
and asked the convention to transfer
it to Samuel j. Edwards. That was
an act manly enough to insure here
after the vote of every man in Cum
berland without regard to party-if
he ever needs it.
OUR amiable contemporary, the
Lonacohing ReoieaC, remarked re-
Gently that "as usual, the JOURNAL
gives the Knights of Labor Il kick.
This the JOURNAL denies. 1t is not
a kicker.
At the same time it does not know
of anything Or anybody connected
with the Knights of Labor that
places that order out of the
reach of criticism. The old cry of
the king can do no wrong" was bur-
led over one hundred years ago, and it
stands us we'll IN need to see that
minority rule in any shape shall nev-
er rise again.
THEY seem to have the same
trouble in Baltimore that is SAID to
prevail here. W. Benton Crisp, a
kicker, writes :.
1t has been quite clear to my mind that
the City Convention as at present constitut ed
does not represent the party, but registers
simply the DEGREES of few unscrupulous
persons.
Under existing systems not one
man out of a hundred at IA primary
knows what or who he is voting for.
When he finds out all about it he
discovers, If he is intelligent and
CONSCIENTIOUS, that in some cases he
has to slay the lamb that he led to
the altar.
The procession of the Yelled
Prophet in st Louis had on its pro-
gramme a scriptural illustration of
float representing Balaam's ass in
the act of making an extemporaneous
speech. The effigy was dead fail
ure. In Frostburg the same scrip
tural dodge was played with three
mules IN the laborious act of nilotino